Subject Cataloging: The Challenge of Determining “Aboutness”
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Subject cataloging has opened up a whole new aspect of librarianship to me. Namely, how does an indexer or bibliographer correctly and comprehensively determine an article’s “aboutness”? I’ve been working with the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) since January 2009 helping update the organization’s thesaurus and index articles from Spanish language periodicals. Only since about [...]
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